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When Helene Von Luz was born on 29 January 1862, in Welzheim, Württemberg, Germany, her father, Karl Von Luz, was 37 and her mother, Maria Magdalene Kissling, was 39. She married Professor Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel on 15 June 1886, in Reutlingen, Württemberg, Germany.
- Female
- Professor Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel
Apr 30, 2022 · Genealogy for Helene Rommel (von Luz) (1862 - 1940) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- Welzheim, Baden-Wurttemberg
- Erwin Johannes Rommel, Sr.
- Baden-Wurttemberg
- June 29, 1862
Explore genealogy for Helene (Von Luz) Rommel born 1862 Eisenach, Stadt Eisenach, Thueringen, Germany died 1940 Germany including research + descendants + 2 photos + more in the free family tree community.
- Female
- January 29, 1862
- Johannes Erwin Rommel
- November 3, 1940
- World War I
- The Interwar Years
- In France
- The Desert Fox
- Normandy
- The July 20 Plot
With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Rommel moved to the Western Front with the 6th Württemberg Infantry Regiment. Wounded that September, he was awarded the Iron Cross, First Class. Returning to action, he was transferred to the Württemberg Mountain Battalion of the elite Alpenkorps in the fall of 1915. With this unit, Rommel saw servi...
Though recognized as a gifted officer, Rommel elected to remain with the troops rather than serve in a staff position. Moving through various postings in the Reichswehr, Rommel became an instructor at the Dresden Infantry School in 1929. In this position, he wrote several notable training manuals, including Infanterie greift an (Infantry Attack) in...
Eager for a combat command, Rommel asked Hitler for command of a panzer division despite the fact that the Chief of Army Personnel had rejected his earlier request as he lacked any armor experience. Granting Rommel's request, Hitler assigned him to lead the 7th Panzer Division with the rank of general-major. Quickly learning the art of armored, mob...
Arriving in Libya in February 1941, Rommel was under orders to hold the line and at most conduct limited offensive operations. Technically under the command of the Italian Comando Supremo, Rommel quickly seized the initiative. Beginning a small attack on the British at El Agheila on March 24, he advanced with one German and two Italian divisions. D...
Returning to Germany, Rommel briefly moved through commands in Greece and Italy before being posted to lead Army Group B in France. Tasked with defending the beaches from the inevitable Allied landings, he worked diligently to improve the Atlantic Wall. Though initially believing that Normandy would be the target, he came to agree with most German ...
Early in 1944, several of Rommel's friends approached him regarding a plot to depose Hitler. Agreeing to aid them in February, he wished to see Hitler brought to trial rather than assassinated. In the wake of the failed attempt to kill Hitler on July 20, Rommel's name was betrayed to the Gestapo. Due to Rommel's popularity, Hitler wished to avoid t...
He was the second child of the Protestant headmaster of the secondary school at Aalen, Professor Erwin Rommel Senior (1860–1913), and Helene von Luz, who had two other sons and a daughter. Rommel wrote that "my early years passed quite happily."
Sep 30, 2010 · Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel was born in Heidenheim near Ulm in the Duchy of Swabia in the Kingdom of Wüttemberg in southwestern Germany. His father, Erwin Rommel, Sr., was a school master; his mother, Helene von Luz, was the daughter of a local government official. He was the second of four children.
ber 15, 1891, to Erwin Rommel, Senior, and Helene von Luz at Heidenheim, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, then part of the German Empire. At a young age he was not drawn to academics, yet in his teenage years he excelled in mathematics and considered becoming an engineer. How-ever, perhaps influenced by his father, who once served
